Super Best Audio Friends

  1. Lobby

    General sub-forum area. New members must read the stickied posts in the Tales from the Bully Pulpit sub-forum before posting.

    1. Tales from the Bully Pulpit

      Must read stuff and important announcements.
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      1. How to Win Friends and Influence People

      2. Ambiophonics

      Latest: New Members - Introduce Yourself Imperius Apr 21, 2019 at 4:33 PM
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    2. General Audio Discussion

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      1. Advice Threads

      2. Leaderboard, Overboard, and Deals

      Latest: The All Purpose Advice Thread jexby Apr 21, 2019 at 7:44 PM
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    3. Music and Recordings

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      1. Music and Recordings (vinyl , 8-track, etc.)

      Latest: What are you listening to right now? (2nd Part) bilboda Apr 21, 2019 at 8:58 PM
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    4. The Meeting Place

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      Latest: AXPONA 2019 April 12 - 14 Elmer Danilovich Apr 16, 2019 at 10:39 PM
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    5. Audio Science

      Discussion of blind testing, psychoacoustics, and measurement techniques. Also, preliminary, research, and exploratory measurements should generally be posted here unless the results of your measurement rigs have been established and well known. This is to prevent confusion and difficulty in comparing one measurement with another. Excessive insistence on only very difficult to implement double blind testing results in an automatic one week ban or worse.
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      1. Blind Testing and Psychoacoustics

      2. Measurement Techniques Discussion

      Latest: Distortion measurements question purr1n Apr 21, 2019 at 11:25 AM
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    6. All Points Bulletin / Be on the Look Out

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      Latest: APB: CA Atlas - @warrior Vansen Oct 29, 2018
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  2. Personal Audio Gear Discussion

    Personal audio gear reviews , subjective impressions, thoughts, and questions about gear. Any post with a measurement should go in the measurements section below.

    1. Headphones

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      Latest: ZMF New Headphones: Vérité and Aeolus Resolve Apr 21, 2019 at 10:00 PM
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    2. Headphone Amplifiers and Combo (DAC/Amp) Units

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      Latest: My new $99 Full Balanced headphone amp toy Loxjie P20 purr1n Apr 21, 2019 at 7:24 PM
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    3. IEMs and Portable Gear

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      Latest: IEM general discussion thread iDesign Apr 21, 2019 at 8:17 PM
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    4. Modifications and Tweaks

      Mods, tweaks, cables, power conditioning, etc.
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      Latest: Marvey's Cable Rolling Adventures msommers Apr 18, 2019 at 1:29 PM
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  3. Source Gear Discussion

    1. Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers

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      Latest: Passive Volume Control for DACs/Sources Cspirou Apr 21, 2019 at 9:51 PM
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    2. Computer Audiophile: Software, Configs, Tools

      Players, streamers, operating systems, settings, tagging, etc.
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      Latest: EQ software dark_energy Apr 20, 2019 at 2:22 PM
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    3. Vinyl Nutjob World: Turntable and Related Gear

      Anything related to vinyl playback, turntables, cartridges, phonostages, setup, discussions, measurements, etc.
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      Latest: Schiit Sol Turntable Sneak-Peak bigant Apr 21, 2019 at 8:49 PM
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  4. Two Channel Gear Discussion

    1. Preamps

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      Latest: Passive Schiit shootout: Saga vs. Freya vs. SYS Cspirou Mar 22, 2019
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    2. Power Amps

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      Latest: Schiit Aegir Power Amp Impressions Alfredo Prada Apr 21, 2019 at 8:42 PM
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    3. Speakers

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      Latest: General Speaker Advice and Recommendations purr1n Apr 21, 2019 at 6:49 PM
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  5. Measurements (plus subjective impressions)

    Measurements with subjective impressions. Hands, Marv, Ultrabike, AtomicBob, Sorrodje, and cskippy. Unless your measurements have been sanctioned, please post them in the "Audio Science" sub-forum above. To is to prevent confusion as different measurement setups will have different results. Note that Hands' coupler has pinna, which will bump up the 2-3.5kHz region a little bit.

    1. Headphone Measurements

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      Latest: Verum Audio - Exciting high performance DIY planar Jinxy245 Apr 21, 2019 at 8:11 AM
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    2. IEM Measurements

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      1. IEM Measurements - La Cenric's IEM Playhouse

      Latest: Massdrop x nuforce EDC3 Aklegal Apr 1, 2019
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    3. Headphone Amplifier Measurements

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      Latest: Loxjie P20 technical measurements Baten Apr 8, 2019
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    4. Source Measurements

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      Latest: Soekris DAC1421 Measurements soekris Apr 21, 2019 at 1:18 PM
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    5. Portable and Other Gear Measurements

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      Latest: Goldpoint SA2X - Nobsound NS-05P passive attenuator comparison technical measurements bilboda Apr 9, 2019
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    6. Measurement Setups, Systems, and Standards

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      Latest: New portable headphone measuring setup La Cenric Dec 16, 2018
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  6. SuperBAF Special Sub-Forums

    Some of these sub-forums may be restricted to Friends or Contributors. Of course if you can't see it, then it doesn't exist.

    1. EU Forum

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      Latest: European friends listing Victor Apr 21, 2019 at 5:49 AM
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    2. Loaner Programs

      Loaner program logistics only. Impressions should be in their respective gear category subforums.
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      1. Closed Loaners

      2. Loaner Requests

      Latest: Loaner: Soekris dac1421 soekris Apr 21, 2019 at 5:37 PM
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    3. SBAF Blogs

      Please don't start a random blog in this sub-forum. This sub-forum is reserved for VIPs.
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      Latest: Merv's Politically Incorrect Audio Blog geniekid Mar 20, 2019
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    4. DIY

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      Latest: The phonopreamp T15B on miniature tubes. KIT Zampotech Apr 16, 2019 at 11:26 AM
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    5. For Sale

      HF is probably a better place to reach people for selling most stuff. We reach the same kinds of people as HF, but HF gets 7,000,000 sessions and 35,000,000 pageviews per month. We are about 1000 times smaller and the members here are much more selective in what they purchase.
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      1. Closed (Archived) Sales

      2. Buyer and Seller Feedback (Negative)

      Latest: FS: HD800, Lake People AMP RS 08 Roman Apr 21, 2019 at 10:06 PM
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  7. Non-Audio Stuff

    1. Random Thoughts

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      1. City Guides

      2. Birthdays

      3. Health

      Latest: The Game of Thrones thread purr1n Apr 21, 2019 at 9:32 PM
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    2. Outdoor World

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      Latest: The nearby park bixby Apr 14, 2019
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    3. Geek Cave: Computers, Tablets, HT, Phones, Games

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      1. Lego and Other Building Bricks

      2. Clash of Clans

      Latest: Mechanical Keyboards... Cspirou Apr 21, 2019 at 10:00 AM
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    4. Food and Drink

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      Latest: What are you drinking RIGHT NOW? spwath Apr 14, 2019
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    5. Musicians and Instruments

      SHow off your musical instruments and post what instruments you have and your musical accomplishments! Even if you play an instrument just as a hobby, please post your pics and descriptions!
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      Latest: The music we make Cellist88 Mar 19, 2019
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    6. Photography and Cameras

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      Latest: Post Your Favorite Photos (Must have been taken by you!) Syzygy Apr 8, 2019
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    7. Cars, Motorcycles, Boats, Airplanes Talk

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      Latest: BMW 440i xDrive or Audi S5? dark_energy Apr 14, 2019
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  8. Industry Sub-Forums

    1. Product Announcements

      MoTs: Please introduce yourselves first before posting.
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      Latest: New Shanling M0 - Tiny DAP for 109$ Bina Mar 12, 2019
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    2. Beezar

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      Latest: Beezar Audio/ECP Audio History TomB Jan 23, 2019
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    3. Schiit

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      Latest: The Mike Moffat (#2 at Schiit) Blog EeePee Jan 7, 2019
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    4. The Source Audio Video Design Group (TSAV)

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      Latest: March Madness at The Source AV! Luckbad Mar 29, 2019
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    5. Eddie Current

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      Latest: Eddie Current Zana Deux S slankoe Apr 20, 2019 at 9:55 PM
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